Nick Lachey has been tapped to host The Sing-Off – NBC’s entry into the TV singing competition craze premiering on Dec. 14 and continuing over four nights — the network said on Monday.

Lachey, former frontman of the boy band 98 Degrees, will host the show that sees eight acappella groups competing for a $100,000 prize and a contract with Sony Music Entertainment’s Epic Records with America’s votes.
Are the Lachey Brothers “Smarter Than A 5th Grader?” The world will soon find out….Crooning siblings Nick Lachey and Drew Lachey will be battling it for charity on back-to-back on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? this Tuesday, NickFanatic.com reports.

Nick — who’s celebrating a birthday today — and his younger brother Drew will test their knowledge of grammar school education in a new half-hour version of the hit FOX series. And as always, a classroom of real 5th graders will be on hand to help the guys when they need it.
Nick and Drew Lachey stop by Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Tues., Nov. 10 @ 8 and 8:30PM ET/PT on MyNetworkTV.
Jessica Simpson is nursing a broken heart for the second time in two months after the desperately lonely 29-year-old singleton was shot down for a date by ex-husband Nick Lachey.

According to The National Enquirer’s “Gossip With Mike Walker” Column, Jessica was stunned speechless when the former 98 Degrees singer shot down her suggestion that they meet up for a drink before she left the country to begin filming her VH1 reality series, The Price of Beauty earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »

Former boy bander Nick Lachey and teen beauty queen turned MTV VJ Vanessa Minnillo have broken up after three years of dating.
“They have amicably split but remain good friends who still greatly care for one another,” a publicist for Vanessa, 28, tells PEOPLE.
Nick, 35, began dating Vanessa shortly of his divorce from singer Jessica Simpson in June 2006.

Nick Lachey is still planning to release his third studio album, titled Coming Up For Air, later this year.
The former star of MTV’s Newlyweds released single the LP’s lead single, “Patience,” to limited fanfare earlier this year. Nonetheless, Nick is giving it the old college try one more time with the debut of his new single, “All In My Head.”
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